heart of the Cromwellian, already half overcome by fatigue and hunger, sank within him; and at last he agreed that the land should be transferred to the stranger for a butt of Claret and the horse on which he rode. As soon as this important matter was settled, the stranger conducted his new friend to a house of entertainment in a neighbouring hamlet, whose ruins are still called the Claret House of K----. A plentiful, though coarse, entertainment soon smoked on the board; and as the eye of the Puritan wandered over the "creature comforts," his heart rose, and he forgot his disappointment and his fatigue. It is even said that he dispensed with nearly ten of the twenty minutes which he usually bestowed on the benediction; {146} but be this as it may, ere he retired to his couch--"vino ciboque gravatus"--the articles were signed, and the courteous stranger became possessed of one of the finest estates in the county! FRANCIS ROBERT DAVIES. * * * * * CANTING ARMS. In the introduction to a work entitled _A Collection of Coats of Arms borne by the Nobility and Gentry of the County of Gloucester_, London, J. Good, 159. New Bond Street, 1792, and which I believe was written by Sir George Nayler, it is asserted that-- "_Armes parlantes_, or canting arms, were not common till the commencement of the seventeenth century, when they prevailed under the auspices of King James." Now doubtless they were _more_ common in the seventeenth century, but I am of opinion that there are many instances of them _centuries_ previous to the reign of King James; as, for example, in a roll of arms of the time of Edward II. (A.D. 1308-14), published by Sir Harris Nicolas from a manuscript in the British Museum, there are the following: "Sire Peres Corbet, d'or, à un _corbyn_ de sable. Sire Johan le Fauconer, d'argent, à iii _faucouns_ de goules. Sire Johan Heroun, d'azure, à iii _herouns_ d'argent. Sire Richard de Cokfeld, d'azure, à une crois e iiii _coks_ d'or. Sire Richard de Barlingham, de goules, à iii ours (_bears_) d'argent. Sire Johan de Swyneford, d'argent, à un cheveroun de sable, à iii testes de _cenglers_ (_swines' heads_) d'or." Sire Ammon de Lucy bore three _luces_; Sire William Bernak a fers between three barnacles, &c. There are many other examples in the same work, but as I think I have made my communication quite long enough, I forbear giving them. CID. * * * * * Minor Notes. _Selleridge._--The story of the author who was charged by his publisher for _selleridge_, and thought it for selling his books, whereas it was storing them in a cellar, is given by Thomas Moore in his _Diary_, lately published, upon the authority of Coleridge. It is to be found, much better told, in Coleridge's _Biographia Literaria_. UNEDA. Philadelphia.